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SILKYARA, India (Reuters) -Rescuers trying to reach workers trapped for nearly a week in a collapsed highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas are working to replace the main digging machine on Saturday to restart operations after they hit a snag. The disaster management office revised the number of people trapped since Sunday morning in the tunnel in Uttarakhand state to 41, up from 40. A new machine flown in from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has reached the site, Anshu Malik Halko, director at state-run National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDC) told R...

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Front of bertha in hopes of sending workers to the front of the drill to see what she's up against. >> you can't back up. >> reporter: bertha won't be moving forward until at least early next year, after the mystery is solved. stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. >> how did that conversation go? i've designed a five-story tall, completely dominant digging machine but it doesn't go in reverse. >> i'm sorry. it isn't funny. it's going to be expensive to figure it out but it is funny. >> they just assume wherever they pointed this thing, it would always go. >> when it's that big. >> i was trying to ...

>> reporter: marek is trapped in the idaho silver mine. they have dug through 37 feet of earth in what is called the lucky friday mine. they've been working around-the-clock since friday when a roof of the tunnel a mile underground collapsed. so far rescuers have not made contact with the miner who is trapped, however you can bet that they are hoping on marek's 30 years of mining experience will prove to be a lifesaving experience. that and the start up of what they call the digging machine, it's a front end loader modified for mining, and called a mucker. this will allow rescuers to work fast...

Housing. the reactor exploded back in 1986. the government says 2 million people got sick from radiation exposure. and in idaho, rescue crews are hoping a remote controlled digging machine will help find a missing miner trapped more than 6,000 feet underground. the miner was last heard from on monday when the tunnel collapsed. the digging machine has to be taken apart before lowered more than a mile underground where it will then be reassembled to start to looking for the missing man. president obama hits the road this week. to sell his ideas on slashing federal red ink through tax hikes a...